Installing osCommerce on your own home computer
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Recently I've been seeing lots of requests for instructions on how to install osCommerce on your own home computer. There are lots of good reasons why you should do this;
- You can test out new contributions easily before adding them to your live store
- You can make a design without affecting your live store
- You can just see if osCommerce is right for you without having to buy a domain name and hosting
I decided that YES, I could easily write a tutorial showing how to do this, but then I thought why not just supply it all ready to go? So that all that anyone would need to do is download some files, press a button, open the browser to http://localhost and osCommerce is ready and waiting for you. Sounds good, right?
Well, hopefully, in the next day or two I will be able to offer this! My idea is to install 2 flavours of osCommerce;
- Standard osCommerce
- osCommerce with STS
That way, anyone can decide which to use! I think that this will be a useful addition to everyone!
Ok, a bit of progress on this.
As of right now, I have a webserver installed with PHP My Admin. And I have osCommerce installed in 1 directory and osCommerce w/ STS in another directory.
Looking good!
Comment by Gary — April 29, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
Seems to work great. Tested on 3 different computers without any problems at all! Now to get it packaged up and available.
Comment by Gary — April 30, 2008 @ 2:52 pm
Any update on this? Been watching this for a link since it was posted. I'm very interested. Keep up the good work.
Comment by Lando — May 9, 2008 @ 3:50 am
Lando – it's basically ready. All I need to do is write up a little User Manual which will show how to download your "live shop" and make a working backup on your home computer. I hope to have that one written today.
Comment by Gary — May 9, 2008 @ 7:15 am
Got a link yet Gary?
Comment by Lando — May 12, 2008 @ 4:29 am
Lando – hopefully this afternoon! Will post with more details. Cheers, Gary
Comment by Gary — May 12, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
http://www.clubosc.com/oscommerce-on-localhost-tutorial.html
Comment by Gary — May 12, 2008 @ 4:14 pm